This is an analysis of the poem Hold That And It Against Me that begins with:
I once crawled,
Before I learned to walk....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCDBC efabghig gXcfC CaXih CDHCJEgegbChkg CDHCJlh ABCDBlEhleiccXkiegffiffgci
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,5,5,14,7,26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 011101 11011 111010 011101 11011 11101 001001 0010011101 0101 111101 11011101 10100001 010111 110101001 101011 111111 01101 11011 10011 0100111 1011 110111 100011010001 10011 1101010 10111 10011 1100011 110 11101001010011 1111011001 01011101 1010101111 10011 011101 10110100 111010101 10011 1101010 10111 10011 1100011 11111 0100011111 111 011101 11011 111010 011101 1101111 110 11101 01111101 11110101 11101001111 11111011011 100111100101 1011111 01111 1111011101 01010101 101001 1001001 10110101101 0101010 010111100101 1111101000 011 100101101110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, me, my, to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hold is repeated.
The author used the same words i, hold at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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